Do you have a special cup/mug for tea of coffee that you just have to use?

I don't have a special mug at home although I suppose they are all special to me as DH doesn't drink tea or coffee. They are all plain white china which I like as I can't bear drinking out of a mug with old tea stains in the bottom. At work I have a special mug which is deliberately really girly so the "lads" don't feel tempted to use it. Their idea of washing a cup is swilling it under the cold water tap (yuk) and they are always quite miffed when I go in a blitz them with bleach ! apparently the tea tastes better when there are old dregs in the bottom of the mug

I have a special mug , but not because of getting older, always have had a special mug, is it not the same as having a favourite chair or side of the sofa , or which side of the bed for sleeping? I admit when my special mugs have broken I mourn the loss ,

I don't have a favourite mug at home because they are all the same. A set of Denby mugs, white inside and burgundy outside.
I used to have my own special mug at work though. A Mr. Bean mug with instructions and comments on the inside. Top one said "hot, be careful", and the bottom one said, " cold and yucky". Unfortunately, while I was on holiday, a colleague used it and broke it. She did have the decency to own up, but didn't offer to replace it.

Yes, I do. My grandchildren brought me back a large Disney mug when they went to Florida. It's adorrned with lots of favourite Disney characters and I use it every day.

I like all my mugs. I have so many and occasionally try to get rid of them but they all creep back into the cupboard again as they all have a meaning or connection. I particularly like using an Emma Bridgewater one decorated with ivy which DH gave me not long before he died. My Mum hated my mugs and I had to buy a special one for her use which was bone china! I suppose we all have our funny little habits!

I have three red mugs, the last of a set of 6, which I always use. When all three are in the dishwasher I have to use other mugs, but am always pleased when the dishwasher's been used and I can go back to using my red ones! Silly, isn't it? (I also have a favourite teaspoon which I like to use for eating yoghurt - it just feels comfortable ).

Not a special mug but I have two types of mug , thick cheapies which anyone can use and 6 nice porcelain pretty mugs which I always use myself I hate drinking out of a 'thick' mug or cup. You know you are 'special' if I give you one of my 'pretty' mugs

DH drives me mad with mug-gate.

He deliberately makes me coffee in a mug with 'Time for Tea' on the side.

He makes his coffee in my favourite tea mug which I try and hide but he always finds it. YUK

He leaves various mugs in the workshop - covered in grease and dirt.

His pal, who helps us in the garden once a week, likes his tea very strong and leaves the tea bag in (I swear he sucks it dry at the end)

One of life's pleasures is to curl up on the sofa with a hot drink in the appropriate mug.

I'd like to say he just doesn't get it but I suspect he loves winding me up.

Not just me then

Terribull I too have different mugs for different times of day however they can change depending on my mood! Complicated

Most of the time I make my tea in a mug however on a Saturday or Sunday I make my tea in a teapot. I set a little tray just for me and it is special. My grandma will not drink from a mug. She insists on a cup and saucer compete with milk jug and sugar basin all set out on her tray on wheels, with a nice plate of or on the side .

I'm now eating breakfast and heavens, just realised I also have a special bowl yikes I'm well along the road to idiosyncrasy! Different mugs for different times of the day that's a good one Grannybug

Your grandma sounds very civilized gillybob

What a lovely thread I like my tea out of a bone china mug, but prefer coffee from a cheap 'thick' mug. Daft isn't it?

I remember back in the eighties when I worked in an R&D lab, where everyone had their own easily recognizable mug, mine bore the legend 'I shot J.R'

DH and I have our individual mugs, ( mine is Winnie the pooh) partly because he doesn't take sugar and I do. Saves mix ups.
It doesn't bother me if others use mine. I have a couple of spares including"Worlds best Nanny" and a set for visitors.

I don't really like mugs much but have 2 sets of cups and saucers one larger than the other and I really prefer a cup and saucer. I do have some nice assorted mugs for visitors who prefer a mug some of my friends think a cup and saucer is a faff.

I also have special cups and bowls for my twin grandchildren when they visit according to their favourite colours etc. I have a dinner service in royal Albert which all matches I like things to match, is that precious!

Oh she is Ashtree very civilized indeed.

I prefer white mugs or mugs with white inside.

My DGC have their own special mugs at mine too TwiceAsNice the girls love to have a cup of tea and a gossip with grandma.

I use plain white, china, Denby mugs or nice china ones from Waitrose! I don't drink coffee but hot chocolate tastes better from thick mugs I always make tea, in a pot, from leaves! [Mrs Bucket strikes again!]

DH's mugs were a huge embarrassment for years as they were nearly 30 years old, thick, yellow and faded, from Tesco. I sent him out to get himself some new ones and he came back with thick plain ones.........from Tesco!

We have a lot of crockery from Ikea, started out with even amounts of dark blue and cream - all but one of the dark blue tea-plates has broken, and only 2 of the dark blue dinner plates remain. Our older grandson always goes for the blue, his favourite colour. And he still likes to use the blue stripy plastic tumbler we bought for him when he was about 2, despite being 'allowed' a grown up glass tumbler now.
When he was little he always used the Mickey Mouse spoon which was one of two we had for our two when they were little. Now he has graciously said his little brother can have this when they visit

My younger son has a special mug, a horrible Bart Simpson thing that contained a smallish Easter egg many years ago. He moved out recently and wanted to take it with him, but I said no, it belongs here, remembering all the stuff he took off to uni that ended up heaven knows where. He always looks happy to use it when he visits

My granddaughter loves our bright coloured plastic mugs we bought from IKEA when the children were little. I remember having favourite cereal bowls when we used to stay with our grandparents in Sussex as children.

I just like tall thin mugs as they keep the drink warmer for longer in my opinion.

My special china "morning tea" mug has a picture of 2 of my gd's on it! I use another with hearts on in the afternoon!! In between it's coffee in any cup or mug!

My morning tea mug is an outsize cup with a pattern of ladybirds. I bought it very many years ago in a rejects shop called Spoils which no longer exists. Tea definitely tastes better from this mug.